Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… Bay, has a long and rich history, as one of the last coastal areas to be settled, in the mid 1760s."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… stone tools and stone boiling rocks spanning the last 3,500 years are plainly visible. Indeed, there is much hard evidence to support the “theory”…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and last but not least, the United States.) Bass Park also became the site of the Bangor Auditorium…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The last BO & M train ran on April 16, 1870. Bangor and Piscataquis Canal locomotive "Pioneer," ca, 1890Bangor Public Library The line was just…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The last class graduated from the “old high school” that year, and a new one was erected at the edge of the village."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… new husband, and my “wise” sister this will be my last entry, but I found the need to report the relief that is in everybody’s heart."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… ticket indicating how long the conversation had lasted. For example, if Line 21 called Line 51, and Line 51 was busy, then operators had to wait…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"The last fox farm to close in Lincoln was owned by Will Brown. It closed in 1947, five years before fox farms became illegal in 1952."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… (C.R.) Loring, who lived in Brunswick, was the last Loring family member to own Skyline Farm. When his only remaining brother Jacob was lost at sea…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… Eddy, and William Thompson, all of Middleborough; lastly, to James Sprout of Taunton, Massachusetts in 1796."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Griffith’s epoch film The Birth of a Nation. (The Last 100 Years: A Glimpse of Farmington We Have Known, Richard Mallett) Cutler Memorial…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"There were many ups and downs; the last “up” was in the 1950s. In the decade many sardine cans were placed in little boxes with an innovation, a key…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"He spent the last $780 of his savings to buy a harness shop only to then discover there was a $2,500 mortgage on the business."

St. Croix Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"E.S. Dingley Corn Huskers The corn season lasted only three weeks. One-third of the employees were women.Farmington Historical Society Canning The…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Central Elementary in the North, the last school in town, closes at the end of the 2009 school year."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"The last of it being used as a hotel, the brothers operated a grocery store in one end of the hotel, Thomas Teague was proprietor until it burned."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"These were destroyed by arson in the 1940s. The last complete racing season for John R Braden was in 1926."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"This is a great and lasting legacy. Alice Zwicker Alice Zwicker was one of the unsung heroes of Maine. During her career in the U.S."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… after the Civil War tells the story of Luther’s last moments. During the battle at Deep Bottom, in hot, humid weather of more than 90 degrees…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"In Bangor, the last two caused considerable debate and some consternation among the citizenry. Maine became a dry state, the first one to do so, in…"